The University of South Manchester Hospital to give patients more choice Credit: ITV Granada Reports

Patients at a hospital in Manchester will be the first in the country to be choose their consultant based on performace tables.

Wythenshawe Hospital will allow them to see how each doctor is ranked against national standards.

The University Hospital of South Manchester Trust will begin with its cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons with details of how they did and what their patients said before extending to all its 250 consultants across all specialties by the end of the year.

Up-to-the-minute details will be posted on the trust's website so patients can make informed choices about who they want to treat and care for them, said the trust.

UHSM joined forces with researchers Picker Institute Europe to devise the system.

A relative of a UK patient who recently contracted a potentially fatal Sars-like virus has also become infected with the disease, health experts said.

The latest case brings the number of confirmed cases across the world to 11, three of which were diagnosed in the UK, the HPA said.

On Monday, the Health Protection Agency said one person who had recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan was being treated in an intensive care unit at Whythenshawe hospital in Greater Manchester after becoming infected with a new type of coronavirus.

Officials confirmed that a relative of the patient, also a UK resident, has become infected and is being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

It's understood that the family member, has an existing medical condition that might make them more susceptible to respiratory infections.